Papa (during dinner clean-up): “Caecilia, why did you turn the light off?”
Caecilia: “I don’t want the butter to melt!”
Category: …heard in the playroom…
Funny things our children say.
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No Muscles
Papa: “Make a muscle.”
Benedict: “I can’t do that. I don’t have one.”
Papa (looking at Benedict’s wimpy arms): “This is readily apparent.”
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MacGuyver
Margaret (while watching me adapt an ornament hook to hang an ornament without an eye): “Papa, you’re being just like MacGyver!”
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Sick Day & Socks: Incompatible
Caecilia: “Papa, I thought you were going to work.”
Papa: “Not today, I’m sick.”
Caecilia: “But you’re wearing socks!”
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Toddler Commandment
Benedict (to baby sister Scholastica while playing Legos): “A commandment is ‘not to break’!”
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Stiff Lizard
Karol: “I know something that doesn’t have a single drop off water in it: fire.”
Papa: “Actually, that’s not true – fire produces water.”
Karol: “What about a stiff lizard?”
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Philosoraptor
Margaret: “What’s a philosopher?”
Mama: “Someone who thinks a lot.”
Margaret: “Philosopher sounds like velociraptor.”